DeviantPC has posted a review on the new AMD Athlon XP2700+ processor.

In marketing, numbers mean everything; higher is always better. Applied to processors this means clock speed. Intel, with the extended pipeline in the P4, holds the advantage over AMD as they can push higher and higher ramping up speeds seemingly without effort. AMD on the other hand has only just broken the 2GHz barrier Intel passed in August last year with the Thoroughbred 2400+; a year after Intel managed the feat. Even the move to a 0.13 micron manufacturing process has not enabled AMD to ramp up the clockspeed as Intel have.

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